Ernestas Galvanauskas

Ernestas Galvanauskas (20 November 1882-24 July 1967) was the Prime Minister of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 (succeeding Mykolas Slezevicius and preceding Kazys Grinius) and from 1922 to 1924, succeeding Grinius and preceding Antanas Tumenas. From 1939 to 1940 he served as Minister of Finance, but his term was ended by the Soviet Union invasion during World War II.

Biography
Ernestas Galvanauskas was born on 20 November 1882 in Jelgava in the Courland region of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia). Galvanauskas was active in the 1905 Revolution as a communist and the founder of the Lithuanian Peasants' Union, and in November 1918 he became a politician of newly-independent Lithuania at the end of World War II. Galvanauskas was a delagate to the Treaty of Versailles conference in 1919. In October 1919 he was made the Prime Minister of Lithuania, ruling over the country twice from 1919 to 1920 and 1922 to 1924. Galvanauskas oversaw the Lithuanian occupation of Memel after the Klaipeda Revolt of 1923 against France's military administration and German police. He succeeded, and Memel/Klaipeda was a part of Lithuania until Nazi Germany's invasion in 1939. In 1940 he fled after the Soviet Union occupied the Baltics and taught in Madagascar before dying in France in 1967.